Dynamic Mars : recent and current landscape evolution of the Red Planet /: recent and current landscape evolution of the Red Planet. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard J. Soare, Susan J. Conway, Stephen M. Clifford.
• Editors: Soare, Richard J; Conway, Susan J; Clifford, Stephen Mark, 1952-
• Contents: Prologue: Mariner's Way: Beyond the Future to the Past Introduction Late Amazonian Epoch climate 1. Orbital (climatic) forcing and its imprint on the global landscape Recent surface water at/near the mid-latitudes? 2. Unraveling the mysteries of recurring slope lineae (RSL) 3. Gullies and their connection with the climate 4. Recent fluvial-channels, -landforms and fresh shallow-valleys in the Olympus Mons lava plains The Polar Regions 5. Active geomorphological processes involving exotic agents 6. CO2-driven geomorphological processes Glacial and periglacial landscapes 7. Paleo-periglacial and “ice-rich” complexes in Utopia Planitia 8. Bi-hemispheric (periglacial) mass wasting Volcanism 9. Volcanic disruption of recent ice-deposits in the Argyre Basin Aeolian processes 10. Dust devils: stirring up the surface 11. Dark Dunes of Mars: An orbit-to-ground multidisciplinary perspective of aeolian science Other surface-modification processes 12. Modification of the surface by impact cratering 13. Stone pavements, lag deposits, and contemporary landscape-evolution 14. Karst landforms as markers of recent climate change: en example from the late Amazonian Epoch evaporite karst within a trough in western Noctis Labyrinthus Epilogue: Mars (actual): What There May Lie on the Decadal Event-Horizon
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 523.43; Mars (Planet)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128130193
• Related ISBNs: 9780128130186
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